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HANSARDLandfill Tax Relief: Local AuthoritiesHappy Christmas, Mr Speaker. For two weeks now the old Supa Skips site in Lancaster has been burning, and it looks as if Lancaster City Council will be left to pick up the tab for…19 Dec 2023HANSARDLandfill Tax Relief: Local Authorities1. If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing landfill tax relief for local authorities who are responsible for hazardous waste after companies go into…19 Dec 2023HANSARDInternational Health Regulations 2005I beg to move, That this House has considered e-petition 635904, relating to the International Health Regulations 2005. In March 2021, a group of world leaders including the then…18 Dec 2023HANSARDDisabled People: Inequality2. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle inequality for disabled people.13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsQ4. A rogue company has walked away from 13,000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Lancaster, and it has now been on fire for 10 days. There are plumes of smoke covering our city.…13 Dec 2023HANSARDDisabled People: InequalityThe neuro drop-in centre in Lancaster provides a unique support network for those affected by neurological conditions, but my constituent, who travels there by bus from Bowerham…13 Dec 2023HANSARDDraft York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023The Minister said that the Mayor would be elected every four years on a fixed-term basis. Why does he think that that is a better system than the Mayor being able to decide when…12 Dec 2023HANSARDSchool Support Staff Vacancies: Trends12. What recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of support staff vacancies in schools.11 Dec 2023HANSARDSchool Support Staff Vacancies: TrendsWe have already heard in this Question Time about delays in getting the education, health and care plans in Lancashire. As a consequence, rural schools like Quernmore, which I had…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineIt is a bold thing for any citizen to do to start an e-petition on the Government’s website, and I thank our petitioners for sitting through our debate today. I do not know…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI beg to move, That this House has considered e-petitions 648225, 648383 and 648292 relating to Israel and Palestine. It is a great accomplishment to reach the threshold of over…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and for the work she is doing on the Parliamentarians for Peace vigil that will happen in about 25 minutes. I share her disappointment…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention and I share the feelings that he has just expressed. In fact, he pre-empts the contribution that I was about to make, which is that…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI share the—11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineThank you, Sir Mark, and I hope, as my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Andrew Western) does, that the Minister can respond with more details of the commitments…11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineI can see that the Minister has heard that intervention and I think that it is probably something that he might like to respond to my colleague on in his remarks.11 Dec 2023HANSARDIsrael and PalestineMy hon. Friend is right to draw the House’s attention to the 75th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights, which was born out of a tragedy that was almost…11 Dec 2023HANSARDDefending Democracy TaskforceGiven the huge importance of preventing foreign interference in our democracy, does the Minister agree that, for the purposes of transparency, Lord Cameron should declare all…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDefending Democracy Taskforce3. What assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Defending Democracy Taskforce in preventing foreign interference in the UK’s democratic integrity.27 Nov 2023HANSARDOnline Political Advertising: RegulationThe Committee has not had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission on the matters raised. The Elections Act 2022 introduced a requirement for most online political…16 Nov 2023